Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
343 results found tagged screen readers.
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Making Lecture Videos Accessible for Students who are Blind or have Low Vision through AI-Assisted Navigation and Visual Question Answering
This paper presents the design and evaluation of LectureAssistant, an AI-powered prototype that makes lecture videos more accessible for students who are blind or have low vision. The research follows a three-part human-centred design process. First,…
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Designing Accessible Calendar Tools for Blind and Low-Vision Users
This extended abstract investigates the accessibility challenges blind and low vision (BLV) users face with calendar applications and explores how voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs) like Siri and Alexa can enhance calendar usability. The stu…
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Surfacing Variations to Calibrate Perceived Reliability of MLLM-generated Image Descriptions
This paper addresses a critical safety problem in AI-powered visual access technology: multimodal large language models (MLLMs) like GPT-4o, Gemini, and Claude produce fluent, confident image descriptions that can contain fabricated content, misinter…
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GestureVoice: Enabling Multimodal Text Editing for Blind Users Using Gestures and Voice
This paper introduces GestureVoice, a multimodal text editing system that enables blind smartphone users to edit text using mid-air hand gestures detected by a smartwatch combined with voice commands, eliminating the need for touchscreen interaction.…
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Crippin' WhatsApp's Interaction Design: Learnings from the blind/visually impaired users of India
This paper examines how blind and visually impaired users in India navigate WhatsApp, using critical disability studies and Roland Barthes' concept of myth to argue that WhatsApp's design naturalizes visual interaction as universal while marginalizin…
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Beyond Accessibility: Understanding the Ease of Use and Impacts of Digital Collaboration Tools for Blind and Low Vision Workers
This paper presents results from a large-scale online survey of 155 blind and low vision (BLV) screen reader users, evaluating the ease of use of 30 widely used digital collaboration tools across five categories: videoconferencing, asynchronous messa…
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From Cluttered to Clear: Improving the Web Accessibility Design for Screen Reader Users in E-commerce With Generative AI
This paper explores how Generative AI (GenAI) can be used to automatically restructure the HTML of shopping websites to improve accessibility for screen reader users. Blind and low vision users face persistent barriers on e-commerce sites — complex l…
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Find and Seek: Assessing the Impact of Table Navigation on Information Look-up with a Screen Reader
This paper challenges the widely held assumption that HTML tables are inherently inaccessible to screen reader users. Web designers use visual cues like layout, typography, and spatial grouping to help sighted users navigate and understand page conte…
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Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs: Publishing Model and Platform Changes Contribute to Declining Scholarly Document Accessibility in the Last Decade
This paper presents a large-scale analysis of 20,000 scholarly PDFs published between 2014 and 2023 to characterise the scope and trajectory of document accessibility in academic publishing. Most scholarly works are distributed as PDFs, a format that…
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Information Wayfinding of Screen Reader Users: Five Personas to Expand Conceptualizations of User Experiences
This paper presents five user personas representing the diverse range of screen reader experiences, developed from observations across several studies with blind screen reader users. The authors challenge the common assumption in research and develop…